''The Boomerang'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by

Louis J. Gasnier Louis Joseph Gasnier (September 15, 1875 – February 15, 1963) was a French-American film director, producer, screenwriter and stage actor. A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously ...

and starring

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, and

Ned Sparks Ned Sparks (born Edward Arthur Sparkman, November 19, 1883 – April 3, 1957) was a Canadian-born character actor of the American stage and screen. He was known for his deadpan expression and comically nasal, monotone delivery. Life and career ...

. It was based on a

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play of the same title by

Winchell Smith Winchell Smith (5 April 1871 – 10 June 1933) was an American playwright, known for big hit works such as '' Brewster's Millions'' (1906) and '' Lightnin' '' (1918). Many of his plays were made into movies. He spent freely but left a large fort ...

and

Victor Mapes Victor Mapes (10 March 1870 – 27 September 1943) was an American playwright, stage manager and director. Life Victor Mapes was born in New York City on 10 March 1870. He belonged to an old New York Family. He attended Columbia University, where ...

, which was later adapted for the 1929 film ''

The Love Doctor ''The Love Doctor'' is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Melville W. Brown and written by Guy Bolton, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and J. Walter Ruben based upon a play by Victor Mapes and Winchell Smith. The film stars Richard Dix, June Collyer, ...

''.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Dr. Sumner, a love expert, engages Virginia as a trained nurse. She has been practicing as a

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. Poulet, her ballyhooer, plans to make a fortune by having her pose as the long-lost niece of Frederick Gordon, a wealthy broker. Preston DeWitt, the lawyer of Gordon, learns that Virginia is actually the lost niece, and attempts to become engaged to her. Failing in this, he tries to kidnap her. As the abductors try, they are overpowered by two other roughly dressed men. Lucy is thrown into a waiting automobile where the young doctor awaits her. The car soon comes to a halt in the country where the bandits level guns at the couple and order, "Kiss her. Kiss him." One bandit unmasks and proves to be old Gordon. He had known who Virginia was the whole time.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1925 films 1925 comedy films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films Films directed by Louis J. Gasnier American black-and-white films Preferred Pictures films 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub